Minolta Dimage 1500 1.5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

Minolta Dimage 1500 1.5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

Minolta Dimage 1500 1.5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
Manufacturer: Konica Minolta
Product Type: Photography

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Minolta?s Dimage EX Zoom 1500 is a high-quality digital camera with a detachable 3x zoom lens and high-speed, 7.5 frame-per-second shooting capability. The 1.5 million pixel CCD and primary color filter provide beautiful image quality with realistic color fidelity. The Dimage EX Zoom 1500 also features Minolta's advanced autofocus and exposure systems, digital subject program selection, and automatic white balance, for ease of use with a wide variety of subjects.With their newly-announced Dimage EX 1500 Zoom/Wide digital camera Minolta appears to be moving into a very aggressive cycle of product development and innovation. The Dimage EX 1500 combines several key innovations with strong picture quality to mount a major challenge at the high end of the "point & shoot" digital camera market.
Amazon.com Review
The Minolta Dimage EX's interchangeable lens design, along with its high resolution, image grouping and searching, and scripting capabilities, make it a good choice for both professionals and home users who want advanced-quality images. Its compact, easy-to-hold design is as portable as most traditional point-and-shoot cameras.

The Minolta Dimage EX's most striking feature is its detachable lens module, which allows you to switch between zoom and extra-wide-angle lenses. (The camera comes with the 3x zoom lens and 2x digital zoom.) The Minolta Dimage EX uses standard CompactFlash removable memory cards. (An 8-MB card is included.) The only drawback we found was that the camera's LCD screen image was jerky and a little behind our movements as we panned to frame our photos.

The Minolta Dimage EX lets you record photos in single, burst, or time-lapse modes. Minolta's burst technology is one of the fastest, letting you take up to 7.5 frames per second. You can choose from 1,344 x 1,008 or 640 x 480 resolution and you can set the compression separately. The Minolta Dimage EX gives you a 1:1 compression option for applications where you need the absolutely highest-quality image. You can select color or black-and-white capture modes--black and white is handy if you need to save space on the memory card and if your final application will be monochrome anyway.

The Minolta Dimage EX lets you set white balance and exposure mode and even lets you automatically bracket exposures. You can save images in preset or custom-made groups, which is useful for cataloging your photos for personal or business use. The camera also gives you the handy option of searching through your images by date or group. One of the Minolta Dimage EX's most useful features is its scripting capability; using the Digita development platform, you can download prebuilt scripts or even create your own to customize your picture taking and cataloging.

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Amazon.com Product Description
Introducing the end of digital photography as you know it. The Dimâge EX Zoom 1500. The first digital camera designed to work and perform like your 35 mm camera. Minolta's Dimâge EX Zoom 1500 is a high-quality digital camera with a detachable 3x zoom lens and high-speed, 3.5 frame-per-second shooting capability. The 1.5 million pixel CCD and primary color filter provide beautiful image quality with realistic color fidelity. The Dimâge EX Zoom 1500 also features Minolta's advanced autofocus and exposure systems, digital subject program selection, and automatic white balance, for ease of use with a wide variety of subjects.
Minolta Dimage 1500 1.5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent low buget camera
  • A little dated, but a great value!
  • Amazing camera by MINOLTA
  • really sharp, colorful pictures
  • Software is miserable
 Minolta Dimage 1500 1.5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: Konica Minolta
ProductGroup: Photography
Binding: Electronics

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Accessories:
  1. SimpleTech STI-CF/256 256 MB CompactFlash Card
  2. SimpleTech STI-CF/128 128MB CompactFlash Card
  3. Viking 64 MB CompactFlash Card
  4. Viking 128 MB CompactFlash Card (CF128M)
  5. SanDisk 48 MB CompactFlash (SDCFB-48-455)

Product Features:
  • 1.5 megapixel CCD create 1,344 x 1,008 images for prints at sizes up to 4 x 6
  • 3x optical plus 2x digital zoom with autofocus
  • Included 8 MB CompactFlash card holds x images at default resolution
  • Connects with Macs and PCs via serial port
  • 4 AA alkaline batteries included

ASIN: B00000JBI6

Amazon.com Review

The Minolta Dimage EX's interchangeable lens design, along with its high resolution, image grouping and searching, and scripting capabilities, make it a good choice for both professionals and home users who want advanced-quality images. Its compact, easy-to-hold design is as portable as most traditional point-and-shoot cameras.

The Minolta Dimage EX's most striking feature is its detachable lens module, which allows you to switch between zoom and extra-wide-angle lenses. (The camera comes with the 3x zoom lens and 2x digital zoom.) The Minolta Dimage EX uses standard CompactFlash removable memory cards. (An 8-MB card is included.) The only drawback we found was that the camera's LCD screen image was jerky and a little behind our movements as we panned to frame our photos.

The Minolta Dimage EX lets you record photos in single, burst, or time-lapse modes. Minolta's burst technology is one of the fastest, letting you take up to 7.5 frames per second. You can choose from 1,344 x 1,008 or 640 x 480 resolution and you can set the compression separately. The Minolta Dimage EX gives you a 1:1 compression option for applications where you need the absolutely highest-quality image. You can select color or black-and-white capture modes--black and white is handy if you need to save space on the memory card and if your final application will be monochrome anyway.

The Minolta Dimage EX lets you set white balance and exposure mode and even lets you automatically bracket exposures. You can save images in preset or custom-made groups, which is useful for cataloging your photos for personal or business use. The camera also gives you the handy option of searching through your images by date or group. One of the Minolta Dimage EX's most useful features is its scripting capability; using the Digita development platform, you can download prebuilt scripts or even create your own to customize your picture taking and cataloging.

Pros:

Cons:

Amazon.com Product Description

Introducing the end of digital photography as you know it. The Dimâge EX Zoom 1500. The first digital camera designed to work and perform like your 35 mm camera. Minolta's Dimâge EX Zoom 1500 is a high-quality digital camera with a detachable 3x zoom lens and high-speed, 3.5 frame-per-second shooting capability. The 1.5 million pixel CCD and primary color filter provide beautiful image quality with realistic color fidelity. The Dimâge EX Zoom 1500 also features Minolta's advanced autofocus and exposure systems, digital subject program selection, and automatic white balance, for ease of use with a wide variety of subjects.

Product Description

Minolta?s Dimage EX Zoom 1500 is a high-quality digital camera with a detachable 3x zoom lens and high-speed, 7.5 frame-per-second shooting capability. The 1.5 million pixel CCD and primary color filter provide beautiful image quality with realistic color fidelity. The Dimage EX Zoom 1500 also features Minolta's advanced autofocus and exposure systems, digital subject program selection, and automatic white balance, for ease of use with a wide variety of subjects.With their newly-announced Dimage EX 1500 Zoom/Wide digital camera Minolta appears to be moving into a very aggressive cycle of product development and innovation. The Dimage EX 1500 combines several key innovations with strong picture quality to mount a major challenge at the high end of the "point & shoot" digital camera market.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent low buget camera.......2002-05-12

Camera works very well. Only complaint is that it eats batteries. It seems that all digital cameras eat batteries. Rechargable batteries are ok but it sucks them dry even faster.

Takes excellent pictures though. I bought a 128 meg compact flash memeory for it.

5 out of 5 stars A little dated, but a great value!.......1999-11-23

I like this camera a lot. It has many features not found in this price range, mainly because it is last year's model, and it's been marked down to it's present price. The detachable lens gives me hope that there will be an upgrade available. The good: 16 mb ram on board makes it a snap to take rapid-fire pictures. The burst mode is really cool for capturing live action sequences. Optical zoom is excellent. Body seems to be solid and well-built, if a little clunky. Digita interface is really flexible, and allows much manipulation to allow you to get the perfect picture. 1.5 megapixel resolution is excellent. The bad: Image in color display is jerky compared to newer cameras. This thing eats batteries like crazy. It really needs a USB interface. What you need to complete the package: NiMH batteries. I got some 1500 ah NiMH batteries and they last forever. Bigger compact flash card. Get at least a 32mb card if you plan on taking a lot of pictures, say of a vacation, or such. Get a Compact Flash Photo Reader for USB. Transfer of pictures is a hell of a lot quicker than the serial cable. Download Digita OS ver. 2.0 from Minolta's web site. The upgrade is painless, and give a lot more functionality to the camera.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing camera by MINOLTA.......1999-08-26

Great camera! The pictures are perfect with excellent color. Very easy to use and with my printer EPSON photo 750 using photographic paper it's very difficult to see the difference between a common photograph and my final result. Buy this camera and sell your old camera!!

4 out of 5 stars really sharp, colorful pictures.......1999-08-15

Though it's not the easiest camera in the world to get used to (clunky user interface), it takes excellent pictures: I almost never need to doctor the picture with software after loading into my laptop. I wish that the status display weren't solely available through the LCD (this eats batteries), but I suppose it allows the camera to remain compact. The bipartite designs has me hoping for an upgrade to a larger ccd in the future--though the 1.5 meg resolution makes it an excellent value in its price class.

3 out of 5 stars Software is miserable.......1999-07-16

The Minolta 1500 Zoom takes excellent digital images. Several have been subsequently used by newspapers in this region. Downloading into my StarMax (Mac) however, is a test of a person's sanity. The software is straight forward enough but invariably stumbles during a save and goes back to the initial connection procedure over and over again. A real time waster!

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